From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus download newsrc?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:15:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739zjje8i.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k4svyw3o.fsf@fh-trier.de
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:40:43 +0200 Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> wrote:
AP> "E. Hoffmann" <erichhoffmann@gmx.de> writes:
>> I tried using emacs gnus newsreader. Contact with my newsserver including
>> authinfo works fine, but I just get 4 newsgroups. Gnus creates .newsrc-
>> dribble. I must have a blind spot, I don't find how to download a full list
>> of available newsgroup from my server. gnus-activate-new-groups won't show
>> up anything, neiter does A z nor A k.
>>
>> Excuse me if this is a too trivial question. How do I download a full list
>> of newsgroups?
AP> In the *Groups* buffer press '^'. This brings up the server buffer. Now
AP> locate your news-server and press 'RET'.
AP> Subscribe to groups you want to read with 'u'.
AP> 2 times 'q' and they should pop up in your *Groups* buffer.
AP> Why does this have to be so painful, you ask ? I don't know.
Should the manual in (gnus) Finding the News mention this perhaps?
Right now it only talks about foreign groups but doesn't mention `^'
which turns out to be essential.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-29 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-29 13:33 gnus download newsrc? E. Hoffmann
2010-03-29 15:40 ` Andreas Politz
2010-03-29 16:15 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-03-30 5:21 ` E. Hoffmann
2010-03-30 8:56 ` Andreas Politz
2010-03-31 6:34 ` E. Hoffmann
2010-03-30 5:11 ` E. Hoffmann
2010-03-31 13:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-04-02 3:01 ` E. Hoffmann
2010-04-05 14:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-04-01 10:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
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